The 20th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, ratified in January, 1933, changed Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20 and changed the beginning/end of Senate and House terms from March 4 to January 3. The first inauguration to take place on January 20 was Franklin Roosevelt's second, in 1937.
The 20th amendment moved inauguration day from March 4 up to January 20. It made FDR's first term some 5 weeks shorter.
The 20th amendment which is also known as the "lame duck" amendment establishes beginning and ending dates for the terms of the president and Congress.
The 20th Amendment specifies that the President and Vice President shall begin their terms of office on January 20th. The Amendment was ratified on January 23,
Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The 20th Amendment changed the dates of congressional and Presidential inauguration.
February 27, 1951 was the date that the 22nd amendment became law.The Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. The amendment did not apply to the sitting President Truman, but he declined to run for a third term.
The 20th amendment moved the date to January 20 from March 4.
20th Amendment
The 22nd Amendment sets the limit of presidential term to 10 years max.
January 20 at Noon.
Yes, President Washington set a precident for a two year term, but it wasn't established untill 1891.
Amendment 20 moved the beginning of the president's term to January 20, from March 4.
On 4 March 1933.
amendment 22
The length of a U. S. presidential or vice presidential term has always been four years with one exception: President Franklin Roosevelt's first term and Vice President Garner's first term were cut short due to the change of the start and end date of such terms from March 4 to January 20.
There was no US Presidential election in 2006. The date of the mid-term general election in 2006 was Tuesday, November 7. The date of the most recent Presidential election was Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The next Presidential election will be held Tuesday, November 6, 2012.
12:00, January 20th, every four years